A crossing guard is dressed for the weather at Richmond Terrace and Davis Avenue in West Brighton.Staten Island Advance/Jan Somma-Hammel

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The pre-Thanksgiving Day storm dumped an inch of rain overnight on Staten Island and is causing travel delays across the East Coast.

As of 7 a.m., the temperature was 62 degrees and a light rain was falling, but a wind advisory remains in effect until 8 a.m., a flood watch until mid-afternoon and a gale warning until noon on Thursday.